From: Nirbhay Sharma <nirbhay.lkd@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Clark Williams" <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Tiffany Yang" <ynaffit@google.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev,
syzbot+27a2519eb4dad86d0156@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
skhan@linuxfoundation.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
"Nirbhay Sharma" <nirbhay.lkd@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix seqcount lockdep assertion in cgroup freezer
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:15:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251003114555.413804-1-nirbhay.lkd@gmail.com> (raw)
The commit afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting")
introduced a seqcount to track freeze timing but initialized it as a
plain seqcount_t using seqcount_init().
However, the write-side critical section in cgroup_do_freeze() holds
the css_set_lock spinlock while calling write_seqcount_begin(). On
PREEMPT_RT kernels, spinlocks do not disable preemption, causing the
lockdep assertion for a plain seqcount_t, which checks for preemption
being disabled, to fail.
This triggers the following warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9692 at include/linux/seqlock.h:221
Fix this by changing the type to seqcount_spinlock_t and initializing
it with seqcount_spinlock_init() to associate css_set_lock with the
seqcount. This allows lockdep to correctly validate that the spinlock
is held during write operations, resolving the assertion failure on all
kernel configurations.
Reported-by: syzbot+27a2519eb4dad86d0156@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=27a2519eb4dad86d0156
Fixes: afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting")
Signed-off-by: Nirbhay Sharma <nirbhay.lkd@gmail.com>
---
include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 2 +-
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index 539c64eeef38..933c4487a846 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ struct cgroup_freezer_state {
int nr_frozen_tasks;
/* Freeze time data consistency protection */
- seqcount_t freeze_seq;
+ seqcount_spinlock_t freeze_seq;
/*
* Most recent time the cgroup was requested to freeze.
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index ab096b884bbc..fe175326b155 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -5789,7 +5789,7 @@ static struct cgroup *cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, const char *name,
* if the parent has to be frozen, the child has too.
*/
cgrp->freezer.e_freeze = parent->freezer.e_freeze;
- seqcount_init(&cgrp->freezer.freeze_seq);
+ seqcount_spinlock_init(&cgrp->freezer.freeze_seq, &css_set_lock);
if (cgrp->freezer.e_freeze) {
/*
* Set the CGRP_FREEZE flag, so when a process will be
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-03 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-03 11:45 Nirbhay Sharma [this message]
2025-10-03 14:00 ` [PATCH] cgroup: Fix seqcount lockdep assertion in cgroup freezer Michal Koutný
2025-10-03 14:27 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-03 14:37 ` Tejun Heo
2025-10-04 8:34 ` Tiffany Yang
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